venerdì 2 ottobre 2015

Glenn Hauser logs October 2, 2015


** AUSTRALIA. 12085, Oct 2 at 1335, no signal from RA while always weaker 12065 is quite audible as well as bigsig 9580, during ABC Local Radio music show on Fridays which is mostly talk; 1412, still no 12085, the one aimed at Alaska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 5910, Oct 2 at 0601, Alcaraván Radio is off again, after hearing it reactivated earlier at 0144-0147. Perhaps just testing so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 4895, Oct 2 at 1252, algo with talk, presumably the only 4895 SWBC station on the nightside, AIR Kurseong. 

Many other JBA carriers on 60 m fitting India or Tibet/China without achieving any modulation, at 1301 Oct 2 scan: 4800, 4810, 4820, 4870, 4880, 4910, 4920, 4970, 5010, 5040, 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAJIKISTAN, INDONESIA 

** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750-, Oct 2 at 1248, RRI Makassar with music, clear with no low audible heterodyne, but at 1259 recheck now there is CCI from a 4750.0 LAH. I keep wondering whether the 4750 station coming on somewhere in the 1245-1300 span is Bangladesh or China? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 800, Oct 2 at 0632 UT, no sign of XEROK Juárez; I can still hear KQCV OKC with it nulled as much as possible. Nor is XEROK evident around 1245. Now I`m wondering if it`s totally off the air, rather than just during daytime as I observed while in New Mexico last month. It would be quite ironic if one of the historic border-blasters quit AM for FM as the Mexican government encourages. That could open up 800 for some new USA stations in the Southwest, should anyone be interested in Old Technology (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 9690-, Oct 2 at 0602, VON is absent here, but audible in Hausa on 7255-. I leave a BFO on 9689, and at 0627 notice that one is now on too, perhaps from somewhat earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Oct 2 at 1250, pop music at almost equal fair level to 5025 Cuba! and easily separable from it as Rebelde is weakening into dayside. So SIBC is running late today past usual 1200*, probably relaying Wantok FM; however, cuts off abruptly during music at 1258:15* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAJIKISTAN. 4790, Oct 2 at 1300, very poor signal with a bit of talk audible, vs CODAR, presumably the new BBC Uzbek relay via Dushanbe-Yangiyul since Sept 1 at 1300-1330 only. Beware, however, that this service on higher bands is jammed by the ChiCom, interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan, and will presumably also do so on 4790. However, Aoki does not yet show it as *jammed. As Ron Howard also points out, do not assume something on 4790 is a reactivated RRI Fak2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Oct 2 at 1309, music atop pileup with SAHs, CCI; not // 9420 talk which is CNR6 in Chinese (or is it? Aoki also lists CNR13 from Lingshi in Uyghur at same time on 9420!). So maybe the 6165 dominator is Thazin Radio, Myanmar, but Vietnam and India are also on there, a bigger mess surely in Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1736 UT October 2